Dog at large

stifled conjectures; dusty tear trails
peer pressured regret; broken lunch pails
dark, blurry memories; salty sea shells
and a name

experimentation; fly-by-night love
stock pile halloweens and having enough
pubertal provokations; water color stained cuffs
and a face

dogmatic sleep schedules and dangerous dare flips
competitive natures and tentative beer sips
flesh toned filaments; anatomical quips
and a time

fearless friendships; embarassing growth
wandering islands and fumbling on the coast
beguiling bastionary; Odious oaths
a life so far

a timeline precipice: white tips and a bend
decades of melodies, a decrescendo descends
sensing beginnings and experiencing ends
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Girls can't falsetto

When the sun swallowed the clouds
I was chewing thoughts like candy

and when the clock pounded those proud
and rounded clicks, i was crying

but all those tears, they did not stray from
those round and pointed corners

they jogged around, polished my stare;
i sat so still, sharing a mirror
with my dumbfounded ear-to-ear;
and still those cartwheeling tears ran
circles around my conscience

when i learned that love was just a somebody's
clear thinking
i was out cold, sweating; the cold sweat pouring, dreaming
about nothing.